New Crias!

We just wanted to show some pictures of a couple of our new crias.  The first picture is of Jubilation.  He was born late in the summer to Solano's Celebration.  When we picked his name we did not know the defination of Celebration.  It is the joy of celebration.  How fitting a name for this show ring quality male.  The females are named Chocolate Candy and Bria.  You will see these crias in the show ring in October of 2011.

Shearing is over!

This year we sheared on the 19th of April.  The alpacas look sooo....different without all that fleece.  They are enjoying running in the hay fields and going into the pond now that they have over eight pounds of fleece off their bodies.  Below are a couple of pictures of this year's shearing day.  It was a great time.  Friends and customers arrived at 8 in the morning.  The weather cooperated with a cool and dry day.

New award winning Herdsire now makes his home at  Alpacas of Peaceful Glen!

MFI Highlite is a beautiful rose grey male with an advanced rose grey fleece.  The crimp in his fleece is both high-frequency and high amplitude...extremely organized for a rose grey alpaca fleece.  It is a soft fleece with excellent density.  Her is the son of Peruvian Jeronimo and MFI Hayley. 

Breedings to this blue ribbon winner are now open.  He has settled 6 females so far.  We are very excited to see his offspring.

Shown above is Mary Haines (middle) receiving "Best of Show" award from Donna Pointer who is a member of the Fiber Committee of the Kentucky Alpaca Association.  Also shown are other local participants of the project, Thelma Dunaway(far left), Marthalyn Hickleberry (fourth from left) and Clara Mieres.

Celebrating Summer at St. Andrews

Nine St. Andrews residents and friends recently participated in an alpaca fleece project sponsored by the Kentucky Alpaca Association.  The Association wanted people to feel and experience the luzury of alpaca yarn and to gain some knowledge as to why the Inca Indians called alpaca fiber "The Fiber of the Gods".As part of their marketing efforts, the fiber committee came up with a project to introduce the general public to the use of alpaca yarn.  Fiber Committee members were able to give alpaca yarn to any interested individual to design and make any item of their choosing with the yarn.  Items made from the yarn were collected and displayed at the 2009 Kentucky Alpaca Classic Show in Louisville at the end of April.  The submitted items were then judged.  Mary Haines was awarded the ribbon.  Mary made a unique scarf.

Donna Pointer of Alpacas of Peaceful Glen thought of St. Andrews when she heard about the project.  Donna and Alan have been part of the St. Andrews family since Alan's mother, Jackie Pointer, moved into the community four years ago.

VISITORS

After a recent lunch at the Nina RidgeCountry Store, residents of an assisted living facility enjoyed their annual visit to our alpaca farm.   One photo shows some of the residents feeding the female alpacas. A cria, Amazing Grayce, later went onto the bus to visit with those that could not get off the bus.  The cria goes up and down the aisle to visit with each person on the bus. The last photo shows Donna holding Amazing Grayce to let people feel her wonderful fleece.  By the end of the visit, the cria was ready to get back with her mom.

They are coming again this year.  We love to have McCready Manor visit our alpacas.

GUESS WHAT WE NAMED THIS LITTLE FELLOW

Our youngest grandson, Alexander, and his mother visited the farm this fall.  It was Alexander's first plane ride.  The trip from California went very well.  Each morning while eating his breakfast, we would hear,"Grandpa Alan, RTV and pacas."  We enjoyed our little "farm hand".  During their visit, Saltspring Trophy, delivered a show quality male.  What to name him.  We started through the list and then we knew what to name him.  My Peruvian Alexander the Great!  We took Alexander to the pasture to meet his namesake.